The week's best photos

A botanical trap, a pair of puppies, and more

Flowers in Saudi Arabia

Foreign workers harvest Damask roses at a farm in Taif, Saudi Arabia

(Image credit: Fayez Nureldine / AFP / Getty Images)

Hands Off! protest in Los Angeles

Thousands of people attend a "Hands Off!" march to protest U.S. President Donald Trump and Elon Musk in Los Angeles

(Image credit: Etienne Laurent / Getty Images)

A farmer

A farmer balances a towering harvest atop a bicycle on Tanzania's Swahili Coast

(Image credit: Wim Demessemaekers / World Food Photography Awards)

Pigeons

Two pigeons await the start of the pigeon racing season in South Shields, Britain

(Image credit: Lee Smith / Reuters)

A Drosera capensis plant

A Cape sundew (Drosera capensis) captures an insect at a carnivorous plant exhibit in Bogotá, Colombia

(Image credit: Fernando Vergara / AP)

A fighter

A fighter celebrates after winning his bout at the Morengy Iarivo martial arts event in Antananarivo, Madagascar

(Image credit: Rijasolo / Getty Images)

A South Korean musician

A South Korean musician plays the trumpet during the Yeouido Cherry Blossom Festival in Seoul

(Image credit: Anthony Wallace / Getty Images)

Dire wolf pups

A pair of genetically modified "dire wolf" pups named Romulus and Remus are seen at the Colossal Biosciences lab in Texas

(Image credit: U.S. Colossal Biosciences / Handout / Reuters)

A building

Two men sit in front of a building covered with plants in Mumbai, India

(Image credit: Indranil Mukherjee / Getty Images)

A man carrying a woman

A man carries a woman on his back through floodwater in Kinshasa, DR Congo

(Image credit: Hardy Bope / Getty Images)

Lion cubs

Newborn lion cubs play at the Auvergne Wildlife Park in Ardes, France

(Image credit: Jean-Philippe Ksiazek / Getty Images)

Monastery of Holy Trinity

The Monastery of the Holy Trinity towers over the city of Meteora, Greece

(Image credit: Michael Probst / AP)

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Anahi Valenzuela, The Week US

Anahi Valenzuela has worked as an editorial assistant at The Week since 2022, where she assists with magazine content and covers the week's best photos. She started her career as a media producer at The Daily Californian and a writer for College Magazine.